St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-25
LORD HARRINGTON.
He is Placed in an Awkward Po.
sition Toward All Political Pare

S1tlOn toward All Political PARE
ties.
By Cable to the Globe
LONDON, Sept. 24.-It is more certain
now than it has ever been that Lord
harrington must choose between join
ing the present government during the
recess or seeing its breakup. This has
become inevitable, apparently, less
from political than from personal causes.
A great deal has been said from time to
time of Lord Salisbury's self-sacrifice
IN Offering to make way for the UniOn-
ist leaders, but the fact is, if no other
considerations had to be taken into ac-
count, Lord Salisbury'S health makes it
absolutely certain that he cannot face
another laboriOus session while holding
the two important and responsible Off
ces he now fills. The prOlongation of
the recent session entailed constant
anxiety and mental strain ON the head
OF the government, and Lord Salisbury
was as much worn out as Mr.. Smith,
without having Mr.. Smiths powers of
recuperation. The premier is a most
conscientious worker and the steady
toll at his desk during the closing days
OF the session has resulted in asomewhat
serious physical arrangement, which
his stay at Royat has not greatly
benefited. Hence his departure today
for Dieppe. If Lord Harrington does
not make up his mind to assume the
leadership of the present government,
Lord Salisbury may be forced to resign
without settling who is to succeed him,
and it is this contingency which is being
anXiOusly discussed in ministerial quart
ers. The Conservative leader would
gladly retain the secretaryship of the
foreign Office, but there is no one among
his own colleagues, of course, who could
be placed over his head. Mr.. Goschen
S, perhaps, the ablest of the men, but
Mr.. Goschen's leadership
WOULD BE VERY UNPOPULAR
with large portion of the Conservative
party. 1t is impossible to believe for
moment that Lord Harrington will
stand by and see the present govern
ment go to wreck. There is only one
alternative. Lord Harrington will ac-
cept the situation, and lie will do so
earlier than most people have expected.
Two cabinet ministers, one man
of the traditions of the high
Tory aristocracy, the other an energetic
man of business and prominent poll
tician, who sets for a pOpulous urban
constituency, in interviews to-day,
uttered the same sentiments and in al
most the same words of the subject of
the indispenSability of Lord Harting-
ton. There could not be found better
representatives of the old and new Con-
servatism than these two men. They
frankly said that they regarded Lord
Hartington's entrance into the govern-
ment as a most desirable move, although
they of course prOfessed official ig-
norance as to its likelihood. Joseph
Chamberlain's departure for America
is so palpable a sign of disaffection and
evidences so plainly a desire to with+
draw from present complications in
order to return to orthodox Liberalism
that Lord Harrington is bound to do
what lies in his powers to supply
THE NECESSARY COUNTERPoISE.
All that loyal and hearty cooperation
from outside could do has been done and
has failed. There remains nothing for
Lord Harrington except to cast his lot
officially with those whom he unofficially
supports. The difficulty about the seat
is not great. If Rosendale rejects
member of the Tory government there
are plenty of places which would well
come him and if he ShrinkS from calling
himself Tory there is, at any rate, one
constituency which might be trusted to
return him as Liberal or Unionist and
that is the university of Cambridge.
lnat eXcellenG ana accomplished lmper-
sonation of high churchmanship and
high Toryism, Mr.. Beresford- Hope,
though greatly improved in health, will
never again be equal to the labors, anx-
ieties and excitement of the house Of
commons. There could be nothing
more suitable than that he should be
succeeded by the eldest son of the cham
cellor of the university, graduate Of
Trinity college, and man who, as Lord
CavendiSh, won the credit among his
fellow students of an intellectual capac-
ity, principally in the direction of math-
ematics, which would have assured him
distinguished position if circum-
stances had obliged him to work.